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Based on some items of reader feedback regarding the Secret Director Commentary alt-text not working properly on some browsers and mobile devices, I’ve decided to discontinue it for the time being. Any behind-the-scenes info I have on the comic will now be placed in the blog posts.

With that being said: Today’s strip is a piece of pure self-indulgence for me. 😀 Had a funny idea to run off the joke I made way back here, and what better time than between arcs? Whether I use them as recurring characters or not depends on how much I feel like skirting fair-use parody laws. XD

Starting Thursday we will venture back to the orphanage for a little bit. Should be fun. 😀

I also had another piece of Fan Art mailed to me over the weekend, courtesy of Drayna:

Discussion (77) ¬

Wow, I wonder how they both will react to finding out about Selkie…I can just imagine the guy saying “Its a water based demon!!” or something close to that….sorry I don’t play any of those kind of games…my knowledge of game creatures is -18.

Well, to be fair, people often look for couples that have several similar traits to their parents, so i would argue that a cute clone of his mother, who is willing to be with him, might be a good thing

Its always a choice between Rei the incest doormat and Asuka the annoying useless sociopath. If I was Shinji, I’d choose the Class Rep, as she was the only one his age that seemed sane. But at least he seems to have finally gotten over his PTSD. Seriously, what kind of sollution is it to have teens pilot sins against nature to fight off Lovecraftion horrors?

. . . The kind that leads to situations like End of Eva? . . . Seriously there is a reason that my friends have a bumper sticker that says: If Only Life Was As Simple As Evangelion. Also,the entire point of Evangelion was the playing of Super Robot tropes that were popular at the time horribly, horribly straight. Well . . . that and weird references to Abrahamic Religious mythology.

Yes, yes you do. Also: found your comic recently and I”ve been prowling the archives since. This comic rocks, interesting characters, a both organic and apparently well thought out plot, highly detailed and fascinating biology notes that clearly do their best to be different from humans as a humanoid species while still making some design choices for the straight appearance of the species, and not only are you referencing Eva, but you went ShinjixAsuka. Your comic is awesome, as are you.

Selkie saying hi and then Shinji calling her an angel and Todd saying thanks, closely followed by him trying to grab her only to have Selkie bite his hand or arm. Then Asuka apologizing while beating the crap out of him.

I’ve been playing MMORPGS for a few years now, and I have to say stories like yours make me scared. They’re why I’ve always tried to adopt a policy of ditching the game if someone wants to do something or talk to me in real life. I love ’em, but it’s too easy to lose an entire evening to the things.

So long as one always has the “Real Life > MMORPG” attitude, it’s probably fairly safe. If you can add a kitchen timer or something, even better! (I know — and group with — someone who plays 2 hours a week, no more. Barring prior appointments in Real Life. Very disciplined!) Of course, if one gets involved with group activities, one also has to balance that there are Real People behind those pixels, and make sure not to make appointments with them (to kill a Boss) that you’d be likely to break.

As a huge Evangelion nerd, I feel that Shinji has always been portrayed poorly by western fans. The whole series is a documentary of Shinji’s growth(among other things), so of course he seems a little pathetic in the process.

Out of curiosity, is this supposed to fit anywhere in the normal or alternate universe canons?

The original Robotech is 80s.. I think it’s one of a handful of shows that helped popularize anime to the US. It’s crude and low quality by modern standards, but they’ve made newer generations since then. All that said, I’ve never cared for the series myself.

Robotech has always kinda freaked me out. They apparently mixed and matched animation scenes from three or four completely separate anime series and added their own(English) voices. They tried to animate it by themselves for the second season but had to give up after three episodes, at which point they turned it into a movie instead.

It shouldn’t be surprising if Macross(the series Robotech is more or less based off of) sounds like Evangelion. Macross, Gundam, and a couple others formed the basis for the real robot genre, of which Evangelion was a part.

It’s an anime from the early 1990s originally, about 14 year old kids recruited to pilot giant robots to combat alien invaders called Angels. That makes it sound like kid show fodder, but it also has a cast of characters with deeply ingrained psychological issues (conflict avoidance and eroded self-esteem among them) that get pulled apart and dissected as the series progresses, making it a very detailed and psychologically intense characterization study as much as an action show with spiffy robots and weird looking monsters.

Evangelion is a well written show that gave me a case of frigid logic several times. What they put those kids thriough is just plain wrong. I really enjoyed the series because it was such a good story line.
Now I am waiting to see Selkie in a plug suit. It is just a matter of time now that the meme is out there…

Long time reader, this page made me finaly post for the first time: as a fellow asuka x shinji fan, have you ever read Studio Kimigabuchi’s Re-take series? It’s technically a doujinshi, but is enormous, 5 or 6 volumes long, a concludes the series better than any official ending has. I strongly recommend checking it out, you won’t be disappointed!!

Wow. That was awesome. I laughed as soon as I saw her, so congrats on making Asuka so recognizable. If it’s been Shinji I wouldn’t have known who it was, but yeah. As soon as I saw her I knew exactly who it was, before I read a single letter of text.

This was actually hilarious. I just hope they do end up okay. I’d hate for Selkie to have to hear the fights that lead up to a divorce through the walls. …and I just don’t want this nice little Asuka/Shinji pairing destroyed. It’s kinda cute, in a “omg he’s such a dork” kind of way.

I hate to make this my first comment, because I LOVE this webcomic… but as a German, I have to point it out: In German, nouns always start with a capital letter! So Asuka would say ‘Mein Gott’ instead of ‘Mein gott’.

Now that my nitpicking is over, I can say how much I love to see both of them here. I hope to see more of them in the future. ^^

If you ever want to use Finnish for some reason, let me know. 😀 English-speaking friends say my language not just looks weird written, but is pronounced even weirder. (Of course I say the same thing on pronunciation about English. :-P)

Man, I found this funny on it’s own, and didn’t even notice the link to the old joke. Just now went back, read it again, and felt quite silly for not getting the Asuka/Unit 2 (as opposed to apartment 2) reference the first time around. I guess so long as unit 4 isn’t mentioned we’ll be okay (bad things happen there) wait…Tom & Selkie don’t live in #4 (or #3), do they? I don’t recall seeing a number, and either way that would be all kinds of wrong within the context if Eva jokes are being tossed about.

Anyway, it’s past midnight, and I’m probably making less sence than I’d like to be making. Good show with the comic so far, and good show with playing TF2 😀

Hmm, yes. “Secret Director Commentary” a.k.a. mouseover text will never work on mobile or touchscreen tablets (which seems to be the way tech is going) because there is no mouse to hover over with.

Though I’m on a laptop, my own minor complaint/suggestion for mouseover text would be to keep it short, like 2-3 lines. It only appears briefly and reading a large block of text that keeps disappearing after a few seconds is really annoying.

Suggestion 2: Never put any important info there. As you’ve already been alerted, many people can’t see it at all under any circumstances, others are technically capable but forget to check it.

Use it for a quick pun or witty remark that occurs to you after the page is done:

Example:
“Secret Director’s Commentary: Think I should have had Shinji be hooked on a giant robot game, or would that have been pushing my luck?”